Month: June 2005
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Serving Breakfast News !!
[From – Economic Times] I’m not a full-fledged Times of India group basher. But this was the first headlines of today’s Economic Times. I had no idea when I saw this title up there until I read the article which the headline linked too, Western bros are aping your grandfather’s sex skills. [From – Times…
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I’m car shopping busily and it sucks big time. I have no idea why desis push other desis, infact torture them until they accept, to only buy Honda or Toyota. For the money that I’m investing, to get a ‘dubba’ 95′ Honda with manual windows and coffee stained back seats, I can get a slick…
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Desis on the (rock &) roll
[Pic – NY Times/MTV Desi] When MTV Desi starts airing Indian music for desis[second-generation immigrants from the Indian subcontinent as described by NY Times], we can believe music of Rahman and his types, will get a wide opening to the mainstream music in America. The musical boulevards of LA will await them to come over…
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Identifying yourself with films !! – Spielberg
[Pic – News Week] Question – It’s been 30 years since “Jaws.” You’ve achieved every measure of success. What keeps driving you to make movies? Spielberg – I’ve often asked myself that question, and my answer comes back the same way every time: I love it. Being a moviemaker means you get to live many,…
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Redefining houseful !!
Nope this is not about Parthiban’s Houseful. That was a gem. Outlook’s note on how multiplexes are re-defining the meaning of houseful, in this not-so-interesting article, is interesting. Strangely, alongwith the outsourcing stuff, we are also inheriting the Hollywood’s way of movies in India. Bollywood with it’s wider audience, is obviously the first market to…